Leah Brand was the Second Place winner in Narrative’s Eighteenth Annual Poetry Contest. She received an MA in art history from George Washington University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.



SECOND PLACE WINNER


Caput Mortuum

by Leah Brand

I respect grief.
I’m varnished in it.

Layers of abstract grief remain
calcified in my body, mineralized accretions


older than memory or purpose,
like flecks of caput mortuum—
People on couch
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